Guild Wars 2

After Living Story S1, many people wanted to refocus the story on their character. Anet did it and Season 2 is a significant improvement. However Season 2 simply tranform ours characters in NPCs.
As a player, we have no choice, we do not take any decisions and during the dialogues we just hit “next next next”.

It is easy to criticize without providing a solution. That’s why I propose to reintroduce the concept of personality. This concept already exists in GW2 (Wiki Personality )

The idea is to use this concept to offer differents gaming experiences according to the personality of the character. For example some instances have 3 differents animations depending on the personality and for each have a different achievement.
Personality change is easy (eg Divinity’s Reach ). Thus it will be possible to repeat several times the instance with different personality.

It is a starting point for players used to do differents things depending on their choice.

It is also conceivable that merchants are affiliated with a personnality and offers discounts for characters with the same personality. “Favor of the Zephyrites” showed that it was technically possible.

An update can not be done without an Gemstore update. I’m suggesting 11 finishers: a finisher at normal price for each of the 10 personality with a different animation (from the obvious barbaric victory “Who’s the beast ?” to the ironic diplomatic victory “Make a deal: You lose, I win”) and a more expensive last, which shows the animation corresponding to the character’s personality.

I think Anet should focus on player choices and stop offering a generic story for everyone, but change some details in terms of personality and race of our character.

What about you?

Considering Anet already encourages you to replay the LS2 content for the achievements, having different conversations based on the personality choice would certainly make it at least slightly more interesting to replay the missions.

(that is if you still get multiple choices during dialogue, based on personality)

I am definetly for the reintroduction of that system.
I always loved the concept and I hoped that they would build upon it.
Sadly they seem to have decided otherwise.

While some things might still be ingame, it is not tracked anymore and that concernes me.

Op has some interesting ideas and I might add my own later, when I have the time

Personality is still technical there, just with the changes to the UI brought on with the wardrobe system the UI no longer shows it. Of course it’s not like it was ever a thing. I do agree that having some variety in the dialog would help a bit with the R of MMORPG, but so far ANet has oddly been trying to keep their dialog trees as simplistic as possible (thus the next – next – next thing).

Finally a sane suggestion!

I remember reading that it was easier to implement the general aspects of your character, then the multitude of finer details from their Story. I found the revelation disappointing, but understandable.

Still, I would love my Personality back.

I agree- the personality system could have been a great addition to the game and I hope they put it back in when they have the time/resources to implement it properly.

great idea! would love to see this implemented.

Even if there were very little personality related dialogs already in game, it’d be nice if it were to be expanded in a better way.

So, yeah, I would also look forward for personality features…